The win gave Marist at least a share of the MAAC Regular Season
Championship, its first since 2004, and the top seed at next
month's MAAC Tournament. The Red Foxes were also celebrating Senior
Day on Saturday as 14 seniors were honored in a pregame
ceremony.

Nesmith finished with two goals on the day, joining senior Jack
Doherty (Yorktown Heights, N.Y.) and Joseph Radin (Long Beach,
N.Y.), who was wearing the symbolic #34 jersey on Saturday, who
also found the back of the net twice. Senior Jim Marks (Camillus,
N.Y.) scored a team-high three goals and senior Connor Rice
(Penfield, N.Y.) had two assists. Matt Dugan (Cortland, N.Y.) went
11-21 in face-offs and collected a team-high eight ground balls.
Patrick Eaker (Redding, Conn.) caused four turnovers and collected
four ground balls and Dave Scarcello (Buffalo, N.Y.) made 10 saves
in goal.

Marist (9-2, 5-0 MAAC) got on the board first with a pair of
goals in a 1:45 span in the first quarter. Mike Begley
(Brookeville, Md.) opened the scored with an unassisted tally at
the 9:31 mark and Doherty followed with his first score with 7:45
left on the clock.

Siena (5-8, 3-2 MAAC) got one back with a goal with 4:27 left,
but Radin scored with 32 seconds left in the opening period,
finding the back of the net on an assist from Rice to give the Red
Foxes a 3-1 after the first quarter.

The Saints scored the first four goals of the second quarter to
take a 5-3 lead as Siena goalie Tommy Cordts made five saves in the
period.

Marks however scored twice in the final minutes of the second
quarter to pull Marist back into a tie at halftime. He scored
unassisted at the 3:02 mark and then, after Scarcello made a save
with 19 seconds left before the end of the quarter, Gannon Osborn
(Canandaigua, N.Y.) cleared the ball down the field and found Marks
who buried his shot with just three seconds left to even the score
at 5-5.

Marks completed his hat trick, scoring his third consecutive
goals just 32 seconds into the third quarter to put Marist back
ahead at 6-5.

That lead would hold for over seven minutes until Siena tied the
score with 7:24 on the clock.

Doherty gave the lead back to the Red Foxes with his second
unassisted goal of the game at the 4:58 mark.

Just 42 seconds after the Saints tied things up again, Rice,
while running away from the goal, threaded pass through several
Siena defenders to a wide open Radin in front of the crease for his
second goal of the game to put Marist up 8-7 going into the fourth
quarter.

Siena tied the score again at the 12:29 mark, but Nesmith put
the Red Foxes back in fron with his first score with 10:15 left in
regulation. Siena scored at 8:54 to bring the game into its sixth
tie.

Scarcello made by far his biggest stop of the game, making a
kick save on a point-blank shot with just three seconds left in the
fourth quarter to preserve the tie and send it into overtime.

Dugan cleanly won his 11th draw of the game to open the overtime
period, gaining possession for the Red Foxes and setting up
Nesmith's heroics.

Marist closes out the regular season with a pair of road games
next week. The Red Foxes will step out of MAAC play when they
travel to St. Joseph's on Tuesday for a 7 p.m. game. They will then
play at Manhattan on Saturday as they look to complete an
undefeated MAAC season. The MAAC Championships will take place May
5-7 in Buffalo, N.Y., on Canisius' home field.